Random GIFs and Stickers
Explore how to fetch random GIFs and stickers using the GIPHY API random endpoint. Learn to customize requests with tags or retrieve completely random media, and understand the key response elements to integrate animated content in applications.
In this lesson, we'll focus on how to fetch random GIFs and stickers.
The random endpoint
We can often be unsure about what exactly we want to write in our online conversations. Other times, we know what goes with the context but can't find the right word or phrase for it. GIPHY's random endpoint comes in handy here. It allows us to add some randomness to our conversations because it returns a random GIF or sticker that’s related to the word or phrase (tag) we enter. If we don't give a tag, then the GIF or ...